Version 8.83.5.1 of maintenance release uCode for Intel® 5000AGN Series Wi-Fi Adapters

[Tim Gardner]

Binary package hint: linux-firmware

Version 8.83.5.1 of maintenance release uCode for Intel® 5000AGN Series
Wi-Fi Adapters is now available for download from
http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=Downloads

This maintenance release should replace the current 5000 experimental
release uCode

Changes:

- Fix "tid mismatch" issue

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

SRU Justification

Impact: Fix Transmit ID mismatch bug
Patch Description: Update iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Note - Chance of regression is pretty low since the -5 API version of this new firmware file is only used by drivers from the compat-wireless backports package.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Tim, the lucid queue had three linux-firmware uploads, one with an invalid version number (1.38.x), the next with an invalid source.changes (includes 1.34.4 changelog, which is in -updates already), and the third a non-consecutive 1.34.7 upload which only refers to another bug, but doesn't includ the previous changes. Can you please do a new 1.34.5 upload with both changes, or if that is impractical, reupload 1.34.7 built with -v1.34.4? Thanks!

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Martin - I'm quite confused as to how a 1.38.x version could have ended up in the lucid-proposed queue. The changelog looks correct, so I've repackaged and reuploaded with '-v1.34.4' .

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Martin - OK I figured out how a 1.38.x package got uploaded to Lucid. I messed up the Maverick package changelog. I've redone the Maverick package and re-uploaded.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted linux-firmware into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Accepted linux-firmware into maverick-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Any testers?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 1.34.7

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linux-firmware (1.34.7) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * update iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode for 5000 series devices
    version: 8.83.5.1 - fix "tid mismatch" issue
    - LP: #728510

linux-firmware (1.34.6) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * iwlwifi: 9.201.4.1 iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode
    - LP: #727653

linux-firmware (1.34.5) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Stefan Bader ]

  * Pull firmware for ath9k-htc from Natty
    The ath9k-htc module is contained in the compat-wireless-2.6.37
    backports for Lucid and Maverick. However the firmware for that module
    is missing.
    - LP: #721393
 -- Tim Gardner <email address hidden> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:54:41 -0700

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package linux-firmware - 1.38.6

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linux-firmware (1.38.6) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

  * iwlwifi: add updated firmware for 5000 devices
    update iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode for 5000 series devices
    version: 8.83.5.1 - fix "tid mismatch" issue
    - LP: #728510

linux-firmware (1.38.5) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Stefan Bader ]

  * Pull firmware for ath9k-htc from Natty
    The ath9k-htc module is contained in the compat-wireless-2.6.37
    backports for Lucid and Maverick. However the firmware for that module
    is missing.
    - LP: #721393

  * Add link for RTL8192SU firmware
    Create a link from RTL8192SU -> RTL8192SE as testing proved the same
    firmware works for both.
    - LP: #721356
 -- Tim Gardner <email address hidden> Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:05:44 -0700

[Patrick Welche (prlw1)]

I just upgraded some lucid boxen, saw the ChangeLog pointing to this bug, and checked the following:

wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1-1.tgz
tar xzvf iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1-1.tgz
sha1sum iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1/iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode
22bf6093ed8204027cc3207c739d2cab9cc92ea3 iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1/iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode
8d94177b509be3fb653ce8ba0c633244e4abf5f3 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode

So the microcode at the page mentioned in the bug description is different (or has changed in the meantime?) to the microcode which ended up in the patch.